How long can metastatic brain tumor of lung cancer live

Update Date: 2021-07-02 Source: Network

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When lung cancer is in the advanced stage, it is often accompanied by this metastasis. The first choice for lung cancer metastasis is to transfer to some organs around it. In addition, the most common metastasis site is lymph node and bone metastasis. Some patients' condition can be controlled after receiving chemotherapy and radiotherapy, but there are also some patients whose condition has been controlled for a while, and then the development has accelerated. Now let's learn how long the brain can live with lung cancer metastasis.

How long can metastatic brain tumor of lung cancer live

First: brain metastasis is one of the most serious metastases in lung cancer. Generally, there are more brain metastases in small cell lung cancer. Generally, 20% of patients with small cell lung cancer have metastasized to the brain when diagnosed. Relatively speaking, the incidence of brain metastasis in patients with very small cell lung cancer is much lower.

Second: in patients with non-small cell lung cancer, large cell carcinoma, undifferentiated carcinoma and pancreatic cancer have more common brain metastasis, followed by squamous cell carcinoma. If the cancer cells have brain metastasis without treatment, then the generation cycle is only about four weeks. If the treatment, such as radiotherapy, the survival time can reach about 3 to 6 months.

Third: let's first understand what kind of symptoms lung cancer will have if it has brain metastasis. The first symptom he can blink is that he will have some unexplained headache and vomiting. Some people will also have visual impairment, and some changes in personality and temper.

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If you have the above symptoms, then you must carefully check whether there is brain metastasis. Now there has been great progress in the treatment of brain metastasis of lung cancer. It can be treated with surgery, radiotherapy, and gamma knife. However, traditional Chinese medicine has no obvious therapeutic effect on brain metastasis of lung cancer.